{"id":819971,"date":"2026-05-25T00:15:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T00:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/819971\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T00:15:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T00:15:13","slug":"dulac-pushes-back-on-arm-strength-concerns-for-will-howard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/819971\/","title":{"rendered":"Dulac Pushes Back On Arm Strength Concerns For Will Howard"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ever since the Steelers selected Drew Allar in the NFL Draft, the drumbeat for Will Howard has started to quiet. Some of that is to be expected. Allar, as a Pennsylvania product following his time at Penn State, was a higher draft pick than Howard. He was also a 5-Star prospect who had legitimate first-round buzz heading into this season. From a physical tools perspective, Allar stands out with an A++ arm.<\/p>\n

But that doesn\u2019t mean that Howard is a slouch. Gerry Dulac of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette certainly doesn\u2019t think so, as he recently discussed Howard\u2019s early returns at OTAs on the Rich Eisen Show.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI know it\u2019s OTAs, but when you watch Will Howard yesterday in practice, you could see how much more comfortable he is,\u201d said Dulac. \u201cThe throws he\u2019s making, you don\u2019t sit there and go, well, you know, there\u2019s not a strong arm there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dulac went on to say that if you weren\u2019t paying attention to who was throwing the ball, you might mistake Howard\u2019s passes for one of the other quarterbacks. While Howard is bigger at 6\u20194 and roughly 240 pounds, scouts knocked him in the 2025 NFL Draft for his middling arm strength. Here\u2019s what NFL.com\u2019s Lance Zierlein said on him:<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cHe doesn\u2019t hold defenders at bay with his eyes and lacks the arm strength to beat tight man coverage on second- and third-level throws.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hearing that Howard is throwing similarly to Rodgers and Allar is certainly a sign of improvement in the arm strength department. According to Dulac, he should get ample opportunities this offseason to show off his improved arm.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s safe to say 90-95% of the snaps in the preseason are going to be between Will Howard and Drew Allar,\u201d said Dulac.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a welcome sign for Howard, who missed the entire preseason last year due to injury. Currently, he has just as much NFL live rep experience as Allar, and both quarterbacks could benefit from real game action. In that action, the team will \u201chope, hope, hope\u201d that one of the two of them will prove that they can become the team\u2019s franchise quarterback.<\/p>\n

But for now, it\u2019s good news that Howard seems to be improving before getting a large bulk of reps this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ever since the Steelers selected Drew Allar in the NFL Draft, the drumbeat for Will Howard has started…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":541538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[39],"tags":[2390,70473,24895,1232,62,149074,67,132,68,7954],"class_list":["post-819971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-aaron-rodgers","tag-drew-allar","tag-gerry-dulac","tag-nfl","tag-sports","tag-the-rich-eisen-show","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-will-howard"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116632336856296667","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}